The breakdown: The Chief Financial Officer's main duty is to manage the state’s checkbook, serve as a trustee of the state retirement fund and as a member of the Cabinet participate in executive decision making with the governor, Attorney General and Agriculture Commissioner.

Term: Four years

Salary: $128,971.96

Who can vote: Residents registered to vote in Florida.

DEMOCRAT

Candidate: Jeremy Ring

Experience: Ring is a former Democratic member of the Florida State Senate from Broward County. He chaired the Government Oversight Committee and was term-limited in 2016. Ring opened Yahoo!’s first East Coast sales office.

Ring

Issues: Ring wants to leverage investment capital to create an innovation and infrastructure fund and strengthen the auditing of state contracts through additional auditors and technological improvements.

Quotable: “I’m talking about how we make an economy. If there is one thing I want this office to do it’s not to worry about recruiting an Amazon.com fulfillment center. I want this office to help build the next Amazon.com in Florida.”

REPUBLICAN

Candidate: Jimmy Patronis

Experience: Patronis is the current CFO, appointed by Gov. Rick Scott in June 2017 when Jeff Atwater resigned. Scott previously appointed Patronis to the Florida Public Service Commission. A Panama City restaurant owner, Patronis is a former Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives. He was term-limited in 2014.

Issues: Patronis wants the Florida Legislature to address what he has called a Category 5 financial hurricane — assignment of benefits fraud litigation involving insurance companies and consumers who sign away their policy rights to a third party.

Quotable: "Insurance should protect Florida families and not be a cost burden. We have to stop the fraud and those who game the system."

War chest: $3.2 million in campaign account and the Treasure Florida PAC.